Category: science

The biophysical-economics and military-logics of industrial hyperreality by Nafeez Ahmed edited by O Society September 11, 2019 The Anthropocene. A proposed new geological epoch which designates a shift to a planetary age dominated by human impacts across the geological processes of the Earth. Geologists dispute the duration, precision, relevance and even accuracy of the concept. But … Continue reading War, Empire, and Racism in the Anthropocene→

The growing science of memory manipulation raises social and ethical questions by Robert Martone edited by O Society September 3, 2019 We learn from our personal interaction with the world, and our memories of those experiences help guide our behaviors. Experience and memory are inexorably linked, or at least they seemed to be before a recent … Continue reading Artificial Memories Created in Laboratory Mice→

Centuries before Albert Einstein, David Hume recognised universal time, independent of an observer’s viewpoint, doesn’t exist by Matias Slavov edited by O Society August 27, 2019 In 1915, Albert Einstein wrote a letter to the philosopher and physicist Moritz Schlick, who had recently composed an article on the theory of relativity. Einstein praised it: The Collected Papers … Continue reading Einstein Got His Understanding of Time from Hume→

by Jeremy Shapiro edited by O Society August 8, 2019 Currently, there are three important issues on which there is scientific consensus but controversy among laypeople: climate change, biological evolution and childhood vaccination. On all three issues, prominent members of the Trump administration, including the Trump, lined up against the conclusions of research. This widespread rejection … Continue reading The thinking error at the root of science denial→

The crumbling of Russiagate focuses attention on the considerable evidence Russian intelligence agencies charged with intrusion into DNC servers have nothing to do with it. by Patrick Lawrence edited by O Society August 5, 2019 Three years after the narrative we call Russia-gate was framed and incessantly promoted, it crumbles into rubble as we speak. … Continue reading Finally Time for DNC Email Evidence→